ABSTRACT Purpose: to assess the expressive and receptive vocabulary of preschool children trace relationship with different socioeconomic factors. Methods: 108 children, aged between 4 6 years, were evaluated, 84 from a public 24 private preschool, using following instruments: CMMS - Columbia Mental Maturity Scale; ABFW; Peabody Image Vocabulary Test (PPVT); CONFIAS Phonological Awareness: Sequ...

This paper investigates the receptive and expressive vocabulary skills of 202 Arabic/Swedish-speaking Turkish/Swedish-speaking bilingual children aged 4-7 growing up in Sweden, their home/mi ...

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN COMMUNICATION SCIENCE AND DISORDERS • Volume 28 • 20–29 • Spring 2001 © NSSLHA 1092-5171/01/2801-0020 ABSTRACT: Spoken word recognition was investigated in a group of children aged 3:0 to 7:11 (years:months) to assess the relationship between five measures of language development and spoken word recognition accuracy. Two spoken word recognition tasks, gated words and nois...

PURPOSE Children with specific language impairment (SLI) often have vocabulary impairments. This study evaluates longitudinal growth in a latent trait of receptive vocabulary in affected and unaffected children ages 2;6 (years;months) to 21 years and evaluates as possible predictors maternal education, child gender, and nonverbal IQ. METHOD A sample of 519 participants (240 with SLI; 279 unaf...

The present study investigated the relative contributions of experiential and ability factors to second language (L2) passage comprehension and L2 vocabulary retention. Participants included a cross section of 99 adult learners of Spanish as a foreign language enrolled in beginning through advanced level university Spanish courses. Participants completed a standardized reading proficiency test ...